Newton Workshop is a Industrial Design studio - we design and develop household items and furniture, retail displays, event stands and consumer products. We analyze the design of the everyday object and seek to innovate at every level, from concept to manufacture.

If you have an idea that you would like to see realised, please contact us and we will come up with a creative solution for your product that will blow your socks off!

Concept Design

All products start as an idea. Concept design is the process of formalising that idea into a 'product concept' that can be presented visually and accurately specified for production.

﻿Form and Function﻿The two most important aspects of any product design are its form and function. Using a combination of research, brainstorming, sketching, clay and cardboard modelling, and digital 3D modelling, we define the overall form and function of the required product. Depending on the brief, the product may have more aesthetic or more functional importance, but both these aspects need to work in harmony for the concept design to be successful.

﻿Material﻿Choosing the right materials to match the budget and to support the form and function of the product is essential. At Newton Workshop, that means keeping abreast of what materials are available, finding suitable standard components, and also making wise ecological choices.

﻿﻿Industrial Process﻿﻿How will the product be made and in what quantities? Matching the right industrial manufacturing processes to the product's form, function and material, makes a product efficient to manufacture and achieves the desired quality and finish. Newton Workshop concept design takes into account the available industrial processes to ensure that manufacture of the product is achievable from the outset.

Engineering and Prototyping

Before a product can be manufactured, the concept design needs to be carefully analysed, refined and resolved through a process of product engineering and prototyping.

﻿﻿Engineering﻿﻿In the Engineering phase, the design is broken down into an assembly of easily manufacturable parts or standard components. To ensure accuracy and proper communication with suppliers, the design is usually resolved into detailed technical drawings, and files are generated for CAM (computer aided machining) or rapid prototyping.

PrototypingThe prototype is a one-off production of the product and aims to be as close as possible to the actual item that will be manufactured. Depending on the complexity of the product, it may then go into testing.

﻿Testing﻿The prototype serves to test the chosen materials, manufacturing processes and functionality of each and every part of the design. After testing, the prototype may need to be tweaked or re-engineered before going in to manufacture.

Newton Workshop is headed up by James Newton Taylor

"I was always going to be a designer, ever since I started playing with lego as a kid. I love problem solving, and I love creative genius – if I am ever considered a creative genius myself, I'll be stoked!"